(continued from KU Luvian Update)
This posting updates the series started here by adding Luvian (also spelled Luwian, formerly Hieroglyphic Hittite) to the syllabic grid for the syllable GA originally published at 57 - The Syllable GA : Origins of Writing in Western Civilization and the Kaulins Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (MinAegCon™): A Syllabic Grid of Mycenaean Greek Linear B Script, the Cypriot Syllabary, the Phaistos Disk, two Old Elamite Scripts, the Inscription on the Axe of Arkalochori, and Comparable Signs from Sumerian Pictographs and Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
If I have found no comparable Luvian syllable in mainstream sources, there is no update posting for that syllable. This applies particularly to syllables with the vowel "O", which predecessor Sumerian did not have (apparently also not in Luvian). Syllables with the vowel "E" are alleged by Luvian scholars not to have been used for Luvian, though I think otherwise. My research indicates that also Luvian had "consonant plus vowel E" (or similar sound) syllables and I include them if I have been able to identify them (provisionally, of course, subject to ultimate confirmation).
Each syllable will be presented in its own posting.
There is first a scanned image of a "syllabic" grid excerpt from the original Microsoft Word manuscript -- the links there are not clickable because it is one image.
The original text follows -- the links there are clickable -- but embedded fonts or images may be missing because Blogger does not pick them all up from Microsoft Word, so use the scanned image for those.
The Syllable GA plus Luvian in the Minoan Aegean Sign Concordance (by Andis Kaulins)
ΓΑ GA αἴξ , αἰγός "goat" Two primary concepts are found here for the GA syllable, one a term for land parcel and the other a term for goat. (It is unclear to my zoologically untrained eye whether the Egyptian hieroglyph is The Cypriot sign looks like an abstraction of an animal with two horns | Cypriot syllabary � � GA Logically in this context an abstract goat with horns. | Linear B Currently read as JA � �(57) GA "land" land parcel “a piece of land” | Phaistos Disk GA "of a goat" Egyptian Ancient Egyptian bestiary at | No comparable Axe sign _______ Cretan Goat by Kri-kri (Capra aegagrus creticus), Cretan Ibex see native to the Eastern Mediterranean, now almost only on Crete | No Elamite sign yet _______ Egyptian SCHSA antelope ? gHs gazelle ? Luvian E currently read TANA but see Sumerian | Sumerian GANA KA5 (“billy-goat”) |
